Marc Van Montagu (left) and Jeff Schell (right), in 1993Marc Van Montagu.
Marc, Baron Van Montagu (born 10 November 1933 in Ghent) is a Belgian molecular biologist. He was full professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) and scientific director of the genetics department of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). Together with Jozef Schell he founded the biotech company Plant Genetic Systems Inc. (Belgium) in 1982, of which he was scientific director and member of the board of directors. Van Montagu was also involved in founding the biotech company CropDesign, of which he was a board member from 1998 to 2004. He is president of the Public Research and Regulation Initiative (PRRI).
Van Montagu and his colleagues were credited with the discovery of the Ti plasmid.[1] They described the gene transfer mechanism between Agrobacterium and plants, which resulted in the development of methods to alter Agrobacterium into an efficient delivery system for gene engineering and to create transgenic plants.[2] They developed plant molecular genetics, in particular molecular mechanisms for cell proliferation and differentiation and response to abiotic stresses (high light, ozone, cold, salt and drought) and constructed transgenic crops (tobacco, rape seed, corn) resistant to insect pest and tolerant to novel herbicides. His work with poplar trees resulted in engineering of trees with improved pulping qualities.
After his retirement as director of the Laboratory of Genetics at Ghent University, Marc Van Montagu created IPBO - International Plant Biotechnology Outreach, VIB-Ghent University, with the mission to foster biotechnological solutions to global agriculture. In 2015 IPBO launched the “Marc and Nora Van Montagu (MNVM) Fund” with focus on sustainable agriculture and agro-industry to the African continent.
^Zaenen I, Van Larebeke N, Teuchy H, Van Montagu M, Schell J. 1974. Supercoiled circular DNA in crown gall inducing Agrobacterium strains. J. Mol. Biol. 86:109-27
^Van Montagu, Marc (2011). "It is a Long Way to GM Agriculture". Annual Review of Plant Biology. 62: 1–23. doi:10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103906. PMID 21314429.
Marc, Baron VanMontagu (born 10 November 1933 in Ghent) is a Belgian molecular biologist. He was full professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics...
Agriculture in 1990, and the Japan Prize in 1998, which he shared with MarcVanMontagu. He also was appointed Professeur Honoraire, Collège de France, Paris...
and evolutionary history of this group of plant-associated microbes. MarcVanMontagu and Jozef Schell at the University of Ghent (Belgium) discovered the...
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insect-resistant transgenic plants. Its origin goes back to the work of MarcVanMontagu and Jeff Schell at the University of Ghent who were among the first...
Qiang Cao, Alan E. Yocca, Adrian E. Platts, Steven J. Knapp, MarcVanMontagu, Yves Van de Peer, Jiajun Lei, and Ticao Zhang (2021-11-09). "Evolutionary...
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a Masters in Zoology and a PhD in Molecular Genetics in Professor MarcVanMontagu's laboratory. In 1998 she completed an additional degree in Marketing...
in plant biology from the Ghent University. Her thesis advisor was MarcVanMontagu. Wang joined the Agronomy Department at Iowa State University in December...
foreign genes into plants. Shortly after the Asilomar Conference, MarcVanMontagu and Jeff Schell discovered the gene transfer mechanism between Agrobacterium...
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AS 2014 Helen Hai China CEO of the Made in Africa Initiative 2014 MarcVanMontagu Belgium pioneer of plant molecular biology 2011 Marcos Pontes Brazil...
include fungi and human cell lines. Mary-Dell Chilton Jeff Schell MarcVanMontagu Gordon JE, Christie PJ (December 2014). "The Agrobacterium Ti Plasmids"...
from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2016. "2013: VanMontagu, Chilton, Fraley". The World Food Prize Foundation. Archived from the...
(United States, 1995) and Methexis (Ghent, 1997). In 1999, he succeeded MarcVanMontagu as scientific director of the Department of Plant Systems Biology at...
resistant to herbicides. In 1987 Plant Genetic Systems, founded by MarcVanMontagu and Jeff Schell, was the first company to genetically engineer insect-resistant...
Egied Simons, Denis Oudendijk, Walt Van Beek, Weather: Sunny, 29.9 °C. Visitors: 2500 (sold out), Art Works: Rene van Corven, Lieven Standaert, Gilberto...
Biotechnology (VIB) Frederick Sanger Jozef Schell MarcVanMontagu NWS, VRT (30 July 2019). "Walter Fiers, pionier van de Vlaamse biotechnologie, is overleden"...
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collaborated with scientists in the laboratory of Jeff Schell and MarcVanMontagu in Ghent (Belgium). Using transgenic plant cells, they demonstrated...
Cao, Qiang; Yocca, Alan E.; Platts, Adrian E.; Knapp, Steven J.; VanMontagu, Marc (9 November 2021). "Evolutionary history and pan-genome dynamics of...
1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a105409. Crespi, M.; Messens, E.; Caplan, A.B.; VanMontagu, M.; Desomer, J. (1992). "Fasciation induction by the phytopathogen Rhodococcus...
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